Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-01

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The women is only Is. Jealousy is the only |
known cause.
The largest AMI most disastrous fire in
Liverpool since 1847 destroyed the extensive
retail stores of John F. Lewis l. Co., on the
an enormous Christmas stock, all of which
wa, consumed, as was also an attractive
menaQerie connected with che establish
ment. The total loss is $2OO,OO0
Miss Burke, Phillip Brown, and Miss
Norah McCabe of Waseca MINI. were going
home in a sleigh. and as they were crossing
way at Phelps, crossing freight
train caught them and killed .Aiss
McCabe. The men escaped with few
sight bruises.
Cincinnati, December PA number of
wholesale liquor dealers of Cincinnati 0.
have taken JOINT action by employing coun-
sci 10 bring suit in the United States su-
preme court to test the constitution of the
liquor tax law. They propose to deny the
right of the state of Ohio to tax dealers In
other states. They will be joined by the
saloon keepers who have paid the tax under
protest.
A fire broke out in the old freight Office of
the Iron Mountain Railway in Texarkana,
Ark, consuming that building, the Master
Mechanics Office, the car shed, the store
rooms of the Texas and Pacific and Lon
Mountain companies, and singing several
coaches. The fire is supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. Loss il estimated
at $25, 600.
A special meeting of the international
brotherhood of boiler makers and iron ship
builders and helpers protective and bene-
ficia union held meeting in Harrisburg,
Pa. The meetings held with closed doors.
The reports submitted show the organiZa.
ton in fourishipg condition and rapidly
increasing in membership in all large indus
trial centers.
A desperate fight between two farmers,
caused by an old grudge, occurred betwe en-
Elijah l.. Treadway and Edward Taylor in
Cream Ridge township, Missouri, in
the course of which I roadway had three
ribs broken by a club in the hands of Tay-
lor and may not recover. Taylor lost suit
of clothes by knife in Treadwsy,s hands;
but escaped with only slight flesh wound
just over his heart.
A Knox county, ILL.,, jury gave Fannie Ep-
person SIS 600 damages for injuries inflicted
by the explosion of q torpedo placed on the
track at Alpha July 4 by a Chicago, Bur-
lington l. Quincy fireman. The s'!it was
UIOuRut dRdlueL lilo IotIOoO CO"IoAS dAO
consumed whole week. The defense held
that the fireman put the torpedo on the
track to Celebrate and that, having left the
cab, he was not on duty at the time.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times
says that Austrian statesmen declare that
the maintenance of peace is entirely de-
pendent upon the action of the Car, end
as he drinks, delirium tremens may at any
time cause him TO commit an act of folly
which would prscipitate war. Austria
must be ready for such a contingency. The
Poster Lloyd gays the Cars fear Of the
Nlhilists is excessive, and that he is eus-
Iicious of ever, be dy with whom he comes
in contact, including even his own wife and
children.n
Mrs. Jacob Eldridge, an old colored wo-
man, of Howell, Michigan, who has been
gradually turning white for several years,
died recently. At tie time of her death the
greater part of her body was a healthy lily
were full blooded negroes. A number of
years ago she noticed on her leg small
pure white spot. Soon after other similar
spots appeared, and gradually spread until
joined. Almost her entire body thus be-
came white except her face, and several
white spots had even appeared on it.
Nicholas Kelly, of New York City, an en-
ploye of the Mount Vernon Water company,
was employed to charge some old tree
stumps in the Mount Vernon reservoir with
dynamite and blow them to splinters. He
had prepared q stump and took dynamite
cartridge from the case and held it to the
stove in shanty to dry. It dried SO suddenly
that the stove and the shanty are no more.
eyes blown out, his nose destroyed and there
vas big hole in his chest. Notwithstan6-
ing his shocking injuries, his hurts are not
considered to be fatal.
The jury in the case of Godsel Hecox, of
Clarke county, Mo-, tried for grand larceny,
after celebrating upon the case for six
This was a very remarkable and unfortu-
nate case, having been tried twice in Clarke
county, once in Scotland county, twice in
this county, and was unco before the su-
preme court of the state. The expenses at
tending the case amounted to thousands of
dollars, and it has been before the courts
for more than eight years past. Though
the charge was of no great consequence,
yet no case has been tried in northeast Mis-
souri,, perhaps, in which greater interest
was taken, aud the people are heartily glad
that it is terminated.
The president has granted pardon in the
case of All Hoot and Sim MotZ, two UNA
tilla Indians, who are now confined in pris-
on at Salem, Oregon. for the murder of a
white man. They are in bad health, and are
not expected to long survive their release.
John s. Williams (colored,) of Matches, |
Mississippi, who is serving term of i'm
prisonment for perjury in a pension case,
has also been pardoned by the president. |
Another case in which the president exer-
cises executive clenency is that of Robert o. |
convicted of a violation of the pos |
allaws and sentencedt to two years imprlson- |
meEt. His pardon will take effect February |
20, 1857. by which time he will have served |
one-balf his term.
FOREIGN.
A newspaper at Bordeaux prints list of |
&c, man merchants at that place and de-